Over the last two centuries, collectors from around the world have
historicized, politicized, and digitized media in the pursuit of
knowledge and education. This collected volume explores collections of
educational media and their bearing on the ways in which people learn in
both the present and future, how and why material objects have been used
worldwide to store and maintain knowledge for politically expedient
reasons, and how our understanding of digital collections can be
adequately understood only in relation to, and as an extension and
adaptation of, the historically contingent material collections from
which they emerged.